Just, for a brief moment or two, use common sense.....there was virtually nothing available to the average person, to read....no books, no periodicals, they had town criers who provided them with the news of the day....there was very little, if any written correspondence and they had scribes to do that....there was no necessity for the average person to learn to read....THERE WAS NOTHING TO READ.
Nonsense. There was Scripture to rad and there were business records to read.
List of libraries in the ancient world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_the_ancient_world
The OT Scripture is full of recorded instances of decrees being sent out to people in many of the nations mentioned besides Israel. In ancient Israel if a man divorced a woman, he was to give her a WRITTEN divorce certificate. An odd command if most of the people could not read or write.
Since you have yet to provide any evidence to support your contention, we can pretty safely conclude that it’s wrong.
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say you never bothered to read all those links I gave you about the various ancient libraries established throughout the world the last time you made this ridiculous assertion. What did they hold...relics???
Are you unfamiliar with the Jewish traditions of teaching their young to read the Hebrew scriptures? Can you explain why there even was a Septuagint - the Greek translation of those scriptures that started 200 years BEFORE Christ was born? Can you explain how even fishermen and carpenters would know how to read in order to conduct business? I’ve yet to see anything approaching proof for these nutty opinions of yours. Do you have any?
So...
...Rome invented reading; too.